I grew up as Michelle Todd and saw Dr. Housholder all of my childhood years. He was endlessly gentle and always kind. He had a wry sense of humor with me where he would tell a joke and I wouldn’t get it but he would laugh anyway. He delivered me and on the day I was born he asked my dad what my name was and when he told him he responded with, “Oh Shelly!” My dad snapped back at him, “Her NAME is Michelle!” Lol they love telling me that story. Of course, this didn’t phase the doctor at all and every single time I came to see him growing up he’d walk in the room with a big smile and say, “Hello, Shelly!”When I was a teen I became very sick and he took my mom out into the hallway so that I wouldn’t see him cry as he told her their Shelly had to be admitted into the hospital. Since I was late in my teens that was one of the last times I saw him.I’ve thought of him often over the years and cherished my lifelong doctor relationship with him. I’ll never have a doctor like him ever again and I feel extremely lucky to have known him.All my love, Michelle Bradshaw
